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单词 gallows
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That sounds heavy: in fact, this play abounds in mischievous gallows humour.For all the gallows humour, I know which one felt like the future.You have heard of gallows humour?Typically in this part of the country the gallows humour wasn't slow in rearing its head.On his final night out, gallows humour reigned supreme.It taught me tolerance and survival skills; the value of good headphones and gallows humour.In doing that, he was helping to build the gallows from which he would be hanged.If found guilty, he faces the gallows.Tonight he is forced to head into the English countryside to save a man from the gallows.They had a deal in common: beauty and a certain gallows humour about the tragedies they shared.For if there were such a thing as hanging royalty, here was a man to the gallows born.We made the typical jokes about whether we would be there at the same time the next week - gallows humour.Deadly serious - or gallows humour?What jury would be willing to send a man to the gallows on the evidence of a gob of sweat smeared on a piece of metal?The planets dangle in a line beside the forest track to the observatory, suspended from wooden gallows and wobbling slightly in the wind.I like that about football, the gallows humour kicks in.The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour.It's how players seem to deal with any crisis - gallows humour.The mayor of a North Dakota tourist town wants to erect a gallows on his front lawn to bring in more visitors.

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(noun) 
Definition
a wooden structure consisting of two upright posts with a crossbeam, used for hanging criminals
They were hanged at Smithfield gallows.
Synonyms
scaffold
He ascended the shaky ladder to the scaffold.
gibbet

Nearby words of
gallows

  • galling
  • gallivant
  • gallop
  • gallows
  • galore
  • galvanize
  • gambit

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